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Circa 1907 Victorian in Lenox

This wonderful house stands in the Lenox subdivision between Cooper and East Parkway. The area has been developed for more than a century, with lots of Queen Anne cottages and a few other Victorians. This cottage seems more like the earlier, vernacular Victorian, with its center door and broad front porch. But it has lots of late-Victorian touches, such as turned porch columns, cedar shingles in the upper gables, and decoratively cut bargeboards under the eaves ...